Word: edb
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...accomplish this huge task, Executive Director Milo Perkins split EDB into four autonomous geographical divisions...
...EDB's request, SPAB last week approved the allocation of 218,000 metric tons of scarce U.S. tinplate to 19 Latin American countries* enough to stock their canners for this season. By this week's end, similar allocation approvals were expected on iron & steel, tanning materials, soda ash, farm equipment, anhydrous ammonia, rayon, cork, borax and acetone; eventually on 101 products...
...blueprint a world economic balance sheet on which all future allocations will be based, SPAB is compiling U.S. Army, Navy and military Lend-Lease requirements; OPA the U.S. domestic requirements; EDB, the requirements of the rest of the world. If, as subordinates suggest, EDB gets control of Lend-Lease and RFC foreign lending powers (especially of the Export-Import Bank), it will be the distribution center for all U.S.-controlled materials throughout the world...
...European and African, headed by Hector Lazo, executive director of the Cooperative Food Distributors of America. Open warfare adds to EDB's responsibilities. It corresponds to Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare, which directs bombing operations on the European continent. EDB experts must be able to tell Major General Brereton's Far Eastern squadrons which Japanese factories are most worth a load of bombs...
...EDB does not expect OPM to O.K. all of Venezuela's needs without a battle. First big fight ahead will concern whether EDB can get a blanket approval, or will have to haggle over every item. If Colonel Lord wins that battle it will be a precedent for deals with the other 19 republics. His strongest arguments: 1) these are minimum needs, for which the Latin American countries are willing and eager to pay; 2) if they are not granted, in too many cases the war-straitened economies of these nations may collapse; 3) hemisphere solidarity is worth...